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Some are closing, but more are shifting toward a more "professional" orientation. Higher education leaders shouldn't let this drift occur without assessing it, write Roger Baldwin and Vicki Baker.

We all want to change the world.... Scott McLemee interviews the editor of a new encyclopedia covering 500 years of upheaval.

Jeffrey R. Di Leo explores issues of identity, dialogue and the practice of keeping identities secret in many practices of the academy.

If professors want to be good teachers, they need to stop making fun of their students, writes Larry D. Spence.

G. Thomas Couser explains to a student why excuses for academic dishonesty won't fly with him.

New digital tools help you manage your research files. Scott McLemee gazes into "the cloud."

Publishing -- especially university press publishing -- is a tough business. Recently, many presses have come under greater financial pressure...

While literary scholars have good reason to study race, gender and sexuality, too many ignore the economically struggling, writes Keith Gandal.